This week in history

November 4. Day of the Ukrainian Border Guards.

1959. The Storming of Sapun Mountain diorama opened in Sevastopol.

1990. Ukraine for the first time observed its Day of Memory for 1932- 1933 Holodomor Victims.

November 5. 1920. A convention was signed in Warsaw between representatives of the UNR government and the Russian Political Committee on joint military operations against the Bolsheviks.

1953. The first all-welded bridge designed by Borys Paton was put into operation in Kyiv.

November 6. 1943. In the course of the Kyiv operation First Ukrainian Front troops took Kyiv from the Nazis.

1960. The Kyiv subway opened.

November 7. 1917. The Central Rada’s Third Universal was approved by the Small Rada in Kyiv, proclaiming Ukrainian People’s Republic as a part of the Russian Federation.

1951. The first television center in Ukraine began to work in Kyiv.

November 8. 1927. The construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station began in Zaporizhzhia.

1938. The first autonomous government of Transcarpathia (later Carpatho-Ukraine) was established in Uzhhorod.

November 9. 1976. The Ukrainian Public Group to Support Implementing the Helsinki Agreements was founded.

1977. The Ukrainian Helsinki Group made public its Manifesto of the Ukrainian Human Rights Movement.

November 10. 1970. The USSR launched its Luna-17 [Moon-17] space station, carrying the first Lunokhod-1 self-propelled device managed from the earth.

1993. The organizers of the White Brotherhood religious union Yury Kryvonohov and Maryna Tsvyhun, a.k.a. Mariya Devi Christ, were arrested in Kyiv.